Keeping the lights on Series
「你有你繽紛，佢有佢開燈」系列
2024
Digital images and videos
Keeping the lights on—rather than creating a fake vibe—is the way to guard this place in this fragile era. There are known and unknown danger out there--we need to keep ourselves safe with both light outside and inside.
Keeping the lights on—made up of videos and photos—is a series of responses to some make-believe vibe and "a sense of loss" in Hong Kong that people mourn about like the city has dropped dead.
But it hasn’t reached its end—its consciousness is traversing dimensions known and unknown and continuing to change in shape and form during its journey.
Along this journey, the city and lights from different homes create their own different vibe, as shown in the videos.
And in one video episode, the city pokes fun at a color-changing egg-shaped object that it saw before near a waterfront by turning itself into an oval-shaped object.
Creative process
The series was made when I began to take a photo of the view outside my living room windows almost every night from November 2023 to March 2024 to see if people were home and switched on their lights or they were outside enjoying some fake vibe.
I layered the photos weekly and monthly as well as creating an aggregate photo that layered the monthly photos.
The above are a few of all the digital images taken in the duration of 5 months. If you'd like to see more, please contact me via the contact form.
Image 1: Nov 2023
Image 2: Dec 2023
Image 3: Jan 2024
Image 4: Feb 2024
Image 5: Mar 2024
Image 6: Aggregate of monthly photos
Videos in the series to date:
Keeping the lights on: Episode 1
Keeping the lights on: Episode 2
Keeping the lights on: Episode 3
Keeping the lights on: Episode 4
Keeping the lights on: Episode 5
Keeping the lights on: Episode 6
Keeping the lights on: Episode 7
數碼影像與錄像
你有你繽紛，佢有佢開燈。
這座城市並沒有消亡。 它的意識正在穿越所有維度，並會重生。 地球與這座城市在危險中，需要內在與外在的光去看守。
以上是此系列中其中幾幅數碼影像。 如你想觀看更多，請透過聯絡表格與我聯絡。
系列中錄像作品：